The artist MICHAELA KONRAD will be shown for the first time in Graz in a solo exhibition Science Fiction /paintings and prints at the gallery Artelier Contemporary.

MICHAELA KONRAD, born 1972 in Graz, lives and works in Vienna and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (ESP). She received her graphic art education at the Centro Municipal de Arte Gráfico, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and one year at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.

MICHAELA KONRAD invites YOU on a journey through pop culture of past decades and future realities, with SCIENCE FICTION. In series and sequences visually inspired by midcentury comics, vintage game design, science fiction pulp magazines and past mass culture phenomena, she presents an artistic exploration of the great questions of humanity. In a time of information and image overload, she strives for clarity and orientation. Thus science, philosophy and contemporary history become important sources of inspiration for her art, which she playfully incorporates into her work Michaela Konrad's oeuvre encompasses a broad spectrum of media - preferably painting, offset lithography as well as multimedia installations. And the idea is always the prerequisite and the drawing the basis of her creative work. She paints in the tradition of flat painting, avoiding the artistic gesture. Rather, she strives to reduce the line, the brushstroke and the form to the essential. After brainstorming, researching and creating preliminary drawings, her painting becomes a concentrated craft. In various projects she experiments with new media and creates a combination of digital and traditional drawing.
Augmented reality, brings her work to life.

The exhibition is on view from May 13 to July 27, 2023 at the gallery "Artelier Contemporary" at Griesgasse 3 in Graz.